June 23, 1855

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Features

Taking Impressions of Natural Objects

The Ariel Steamship

Tremendous Power of Air

Escape From Houses on Fire

Van Dewater's Turbine Water Wheel

Object of Salt in the Sea

List of Patent Claims

Prizes for Mowing Machines

The Gopher

Wisconsin Iron

Keeping Milk From Souring

Nutriment of Onions

Gang Plow

A New Light from the Spirit World

Sulphur for Trees

Colza Oil

A Large Knitting Factory

Lime and Salt

Signalizing Between Guard and Driver

Gumming Saws

Adulterations of Food

Prevention of Accidents in Factories

Improper Use of Laudanum

Insulating Telegraph Wires

New Inventions

Repeal of the Newspaper Stamp Act in England

Ship Canal Across the Isthmus of Snez

Vesuvius in Repose

Paris Exhibition, &C

The Zodiacal Light

European Inventions, Discoveries, &C

Important Items

Longitude of Cambridge Observatory

Mechanics

Inventors, and Manufacturers

The Art of Dyeing--No. 26

The Atmospheric Effect of the Cannonade at Sevastopol

Departments

Letters

To Correspondents

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